Blessed New Year!

Dear family and friends! We wish you a Blessed New Year! May God bless you richly as you faithfully serve Him! We are so thankful to be able to start a new year here at Word of Life Hungary, our fist one as long term, full time missionaries. Our prayer is that we will be lights in Tóalmás (the town …

Ready for Winter Break

Dear Friends, We had a good month, and I am definitely feeling more energetic! Yay for sleeping! I cannot wait for Amy’s winter break and not having to wake up early in the morning. 🙂 Let me share our month in pictures this time.                   We are looking forward to some family …

We’re Official!

During the first week of November, Lili, Joshua, and I spent a few days at a Word of Life campus near Berlin, Germany for the annual European MIT (Missionaries in Training). Those attending the conference were young people and families who wish to serve long-term with Word of Life in different countries. The candidates were interviewed by some Word of …

Someone Is Almost 1!

Dear friends, Joshua is turning 1 in ten days. We are so excited to have him in our family and we are so thankful for the joy he brings us. He is a goofy little boy, and he is spoiled by his sisters. He can’t walk yet, but he can stand for a longer period of time without holding onto …

We Are Going to MIT

Dear Friends, In a few days we leave for one of Word of Life Germany’s locations. This year that is where MIT (Missionary in Training) will take place in Europe. This training is needed before we can officially become long term, full time Word of Life missionaries. Please pray for us as we go through the training, and for our …

House Update

Hi there, It’s been a while since we mentioned our house we bought last September. We moved in on May 20, with no sinks inside the house, so we had to go outside to get some water, but we had a working toilet! 🙂 Since then we have all of our toilets, sinks, and showers installed, and this month we …

New Co-workers, New Lives

The school year has started, and we are very excited! God has provided a wonderful group of students, and exceptional second year students, many of which are leaders in their dorm rooms. I can’t wait to see how God uses them in the lives of their room-mates this year! Also, we have some new people who have joined us as …

9, 4, 7, 30

Dear friends, Joshua Joshua is 9 months old, he has (only) two teeth on the bottom, he crawls everywhere, loves to chew on all his toys (and anything else he can get), and he absolutely loves to go up the stairs. He can be very cheecky, but in general he obeys. We are teaching him basic sign language (like we …

Exceptional People and a Great Responsibility

The new school year is almost here, and young parents everywhere are sending their first graders to school for the first time, older kids are anxious about fitting in at a new High School, and many college students are calculating credits to get a degree for a good career and paycheck. This is a normal part of life. Almost everyone …

2nd Grade, Here We Come!

Dear Friends, Another summer has ended and another school year is about to start. The girls were able to spend a week with my parents at Lake Balaton, and they both really enjoyed it. One of my cousins from Canada, Claudia, also spent a few days there with them, and we had the privilege of having her at our house …

Changed Lives

Dear Friends, We are in the middle of the 6th week at camp. So far we had 742 campers and we are expecting over 200 more campers the next two weeks. What this means is that 742 campers heard the Gospel clearly preached to them and were encouraged to make a decision to accept Christ as their personal Savior as …

Growing Up

Hi there, Is it really the middle of July? Crazy! Amy was a camper a couple of weeks ago and she absolutely loved it! I didn’t realize how much I will miss her while she is at camp. She, on the other hand, had so much fun she wanted to stay at camp for another week. 🙂 I am involved …

Summer Camps 2018

Dear friends, The second week of camp starts today! Amy is one of the campers and so are 2 of my sister’s kids. I really hope Amy enjoys camp as much as I did 15 years ago. The first week of camp we had 89 campers, this week we expect 130, and next week we will have 150. I’ve been …

House #7

Dear friends, Chris and I got married a little over 8 years ago, and since then, we had to pack all of our stuff and move into a different house 7 times. This time we hope we won’t have to move ever again. We all love our house and are extremely grateful for it. What a privilege to own a …

Looking Back | Looking Forward

This past Saturday we had our Graduation Ceremony, and said goodbye to many friends we grew to love this year. Here is a photo of the graduating students. It hasn’t fully sunk in yet that they are gone, and I won’t see most of them again before we get to Heaven… it is a bittersweet thought. Here is a testimony …

Looking Ahead

Dear friends, We have internet at our new house as of today! The plan is that we will move in on Saturday. We don’t have any working toilets yet, or sinks, so we will see if we can or not, but we are at least moving our stuff over. We are really excited to live there! Amy has exactly 1 …

Opportunities

We’re in the home stretch of the BI School Year, and the next time we post under the Ministry category will be with photos from the Graduation! But there is so much more to be done! This Saturday, May 5th, we will have a soccer tournament for the kids from Tóalmás who have been coming to our weekly soccer ministry, …

Almost at the Finish Line

Dear Friends, We are super excited to report that our house renovation may be done in a month! Our hope is that the next time you read our new family blog post, we will include pictures of the done house. Would you please pray that if God wills we would be able to move in soon? We cannot wait!!! My …

March Highlights

Part of what we would like to do by writing this blog, is to give you all a better understanding of what is happening in our lives, and the lives of those around us, here in Tóalmás. Even better is if we can make you feel what it is like here. Well, this month has gone by so quickly, that …

Please Hold for Spring

Dear Friends, After a very mild winter, we had a crazy cold week the end of February (5-10 F), and then spring has arrived. Or so we thought… After a few wonderful, warm, sunny days, it seems like we will have another week of freezing temperatures. 🙁 Unfortunately this can also slow down the renovations at our house. We would …

Until the Whole World Hears…

Hello dear friends! It has been a whirlwind of a month, and it’s the time of the school year where alongside managing the current student body and ministries, it is time to begin planning things for next school year. There are lots of little details going on, but I would like to share with you what was perhaps the highlight …

In Sickness and in Health

Hi there, These past months we had at least one sick child. Unfortunately Joshua got so sick that he was admitted to the hospital last week. We spent 4 days there and although he is not completely healed, he is doing better and the doctors were confident they can send him home with some medicine. He still coughs forcefully a …

Missions Conference

Hi there, In a couple of days our Annual Missions Conference is going to start. This is one of the highlights of the year for us, and this year Chris was heavily involved with the organization of this event. We are so thankful that we can be here and be a part of it this year. We pray that our …

Looking Forward to an Exciting Year

Dear Friends and Family, Can you believe it’s 2018 already? We have a lot to look forward to this year: Spending time with the students for another few months, Missions Conference, graduation, summer camps, the beginning of another BI year, and Lord willing moving into our house. Amy is excited about turning 7 in a month. She likes her school …

Our Goal(s) for the Year

Dear Friends and Family, Happy New Year! As we look forward this year, we reflect on last year, and set up goals we would like to achieve in 2018. We invite you to pray for us, and to ask about how well we are doing in these areas throughout the year. In January the team I mentioned in my previous …